Unfortunately, Canonical is keeping quiet about just who it’s tapped for this honor; we don’t know if we’re looking at an LG, Huawei, ZTE, Oppo, or someone else entirely. All we know for now is that the plan is to make the platform available on “high-end” hardware (which would fit with the proposed goals for the Ubuntu Edge) sometime next year.

So far, platform upstarts have had a rough time. Firefox OS hasn’t made a big splash, and the recent arrival of the first Jolla Sailfish OS phone has similarly not managed to win over swaths of new fans. Ubuntu’s already got a big PC following, but will that be enough to draw users to its phone offerings? We’re right curious to find out.